How to Use minnow in a Sentence

minnow

noun
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  • But sometimes, the big fish should stay in the small pond to defend the minnows from the sharks.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Both of them love to play with the leftover minnows in the bait bucket.
    — Jim Gronaw, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 Aug. 2019
  • In the bright, harsh light, a team as grand as A.C. Milan might even come to look like a minnow.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 May 2023
  • For some of the minnows carried along by the flow of the Group of 5 conferences, bowl berths are tougher to come by.
    — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Two teenagers looking for minnows to use as bait found Rose’s body face down in a creek.
    — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • With the sharks of large states lunging at one another across the world, can the minnows do more than hide in the reefs?
    — Shivshankar Menon, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Predators will be drawn to the minnows in the glass traps and strike baits offered beside.
    — C.j. Chivers, Popular Mechanics, 26 Apr. 2016
  • When panfish, such as crappie and perch, are on the feed, meaty minnows and shad are the target.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 12 Mar. 2020
  • But nine of the 22 rows in the main collection are Cyprinidae, which mostly means minnows.
    — Richard Conniff, National Geographic, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The dead fish have mostly been small suckers, minnows, darters and sculpin.
    — Politifact Staff Writer, Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Crappie fair with a lot of short fish being caught on jigs and minnows.
    — Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 28 Feb. 2018
  • But also bad news for lake trout, which relied on the minnows as prey.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 1 July 2019
  • Blue herons fed in the shallows; minnows darted around my feet.
    — David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Spoons and jigs catch the Spanish, live cigar minnows or hardtails drifted or slow-trolled get the kings; www.ateamfishing.com.
    — Frank Sargeant, al.com, 21 June 2019
  • Crappie are found in Whiskey Slough with small to medium minnows.
    — Sacbee, sacbee.com, 30 May 2017
  • It’s designed to imitate a minnow and will flow, twitch and shift in the water just like a small bait fish.
    — Outdoor Life, 3 Aug. 2020
  • Anglers should drop live minnows down to within a foot or two of bottom to get them.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Bikers and hikers passed by on trails that cut through the wetlands and bosque and over the silvery minnow channel to the sandy banks of the Rio Grande.
    — Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2019
  • There are worlds and life cycles beneath the surface — minnows and flies and fish and turtles.
    — Heather Radke, Longreads, 16 June 2018
  • Still, the case of Baoshang Bank, a relative minnow, should give investors pause.
    — Mike Bird, WSJ, 27 June 2019
  • White bass - fair lake wide on jigs and minnows; all other species – slow or no report.
    — Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Rite Aid, which was once the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is now just a minnow in the Big Pharmacy pond.
    — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 14 June 2022
  • Emerald shiner minnows are a top bait for bass and perch, but very hard to find at local bait shops.
    — D'arcy Egan, cleveland.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Crappie fishing is fair on the channel edges—live minnows a few feet off bottom are the best bet; www.markcollinsguideservice.com.
    — Frank Sargeant, al.com, 14 June 2019
  • The minnow bite has fallen off in favor of leeches and 'crawlers on sliding-sinker rigs.
    — Star Tribune, 5 June 2021
  • The fetid water smells like rotten eggs and has brought with it tadpoles, minnows and algae.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2019
  • Striped/hybrid bass will hit minnows, swimbaits and Rat-L-Traps.
    — OrlandoSentinel.com, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Live minnows about 4 inches long are the best bait, but some fish can also be caught on small white swimbaits.
    — Frank Sargeant, al, 13 Sep. 2019
  • Jigs can be tipped with any variety of soft plastics or live bait like minnows, leeches, or night crawlers.
    — Alex Robinson, Outdoor Life, 13 June 2024
  • While still a relative minnow compared to Rivian, Lucid has been on something of an upward trajectory of late.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 July 2024

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